Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
BILL JOYAlthough humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it’s true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.
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There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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